352. Jaron Lanier’s book You are not a gadget
Posted in book notes on Mar 9th, 2010
From an interview
On one level, the Internet has become anti-intellectual because Web 2.0 collectivism has killed the individual voice. It is increasingly disheartening to write about any topic in depth these days, because people will only read what the first link from a search engine directs them to, and that will typically be the collective [...]